“on the block”

“on the block”

anthony sylvestry, joey manopella, veto montalto, michael marachia,  … these were some boys on the block back in the early 1960s.  not sure if i am spelling their names correctly, i hung out with veto (and his sister vita) more that the other boys, they were a...
lost at coney island

lost at coney island

so the story goes that my brother got lost at coney island and here is the photo showing him looking for us, late 1950s. i am assuming the shot was taken by my dad, because he was the always the camera person. i have no idea who that man is, could he have been a...
my mother was here

my mother was here

my mother lives in NY, but she was transitioning from her apartment to my sister’s apartment, so she came out to AZ while all the details were done. that took four and a half months. so to entertain my mom and keep my hand in doing some work myself, i took out...
grandpa

grandpa

breaking away from my two layered style with “fragments” i was totally experimenting with this one. i made 4 layers of color and worked over each after removing the original photo.  this is a cherished photo of my grandpa playing with me and my cousin...
fragments revisited

fragments revisited

fragments revisited is a continuation of fragments of women in america. i usually just do the parts of the image that is the body without the clothes, but i also like the clothes themselves and in this case “painted” the clothes on separate layers in procreate so that...